Robert Gregory Email & Phone Number

Bob is the founding President of the Detroit 300 Conservancy, a DDP affiliate organization, where for 22 years, he was responsible for the creation/development and management and programming of Campus Martius Park, the $20 + million dollars privately funded, centerpiece of Downtown Detroit. Bob also serves as the Senior Consultant for Strategy and Public Spaces for the Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP), working with and advising the executive leadership team. The internationally recognized and award winning Park/central Square opened in November 2004 attracting millions of visitors annually, as well as spurring over $6 billion + in economic development. In 2010, Bob and Campus Martius Park were selected by the Urban Land Institute as the first-ever winner of the ULI Urban Open Space Award, a national competition to recognize the outstanding example of a public open space that has catalyzed the transformation of the surrounding community. The American Planning Association (APA) also designated Campus Martius Park as one of 10 Great Public Spaces in America. From 2009-2021, he was Chief Planning and Public Space Officer, where he was responsible for DDP's planning/public space initiatives for the nationally recognized downtown Detroit placemaking activities and4 network of six public spaces including creation of the award winning Beacon Park, the planning, development, financing, programming, management and marketing. He also led the DDP team that established the downtown business improvement zone, (BIZ) in 2014 and the Greater Downtown Transit Oriented Economic Development Plan supporting the new Q Line streetcar system.Bob is a veteran in the urban development and real estate field, including a 20-year career with General Motors as an executive in their real estate group leading a $250 million dollar internationally recognized revitalization of their former 500 acre Headquarters district in Detroit’s historic New Center commercial and residential neighborhood. In this capacity, Bob directed, through a number of private development companies, a wide range of complex developments including housing, office, commercial, retail, entertainment, infrastructure, public space/placemaking, financing, community and public relations. Additionally at GM, Bob directed their Technical Center Planning activity. He has run his own real estate consulting firm and also held a management position in the Michigan State Housing Development Authority where he led a successful 750 single family home rehabilitation/sale neighborhood program in Detroit.